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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

— Quintin Jardine

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Your life informs your writing.

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.

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